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Thursday, 23 May 2013

Review ~ Call Nurse Millie by Jean Fullerton

Published 23 May 2013
The Orion Publishing Group

It’s 1945, and the Second World
War is over, but for 25 year old Millie Sullivan, her life as a qualified nurse
and midwife in the East End of London is as busy as ever. Together with her
nurse colleagues at Munroe House Nurse’s Home, Millie witnesses her share of
tragedy and yet her determined spirit sees her though the harsh reality of
living through some tough circumstances. The indomitable spirit of the people
who inhabit the overcrowded streets and the bomb damaged buildings of the East
End, come gloriously alive in this wonderful historical saga.

This is the first of Jean
Fullerton’s books I have read, but I am impressed with the way she controls the
narrative and allows the characters to develop, so that by the end of the book
you really care about what happens to them. Millie in particular is a feisty
heroine who encapsulates the spirit of the time in her no nonsense approach and
down to earth way of dealing with whatever life throws at her. By using her
undoubted skill as qualified nurse, the author has used her medical knowledge
to good effect, and has written a story which pulls you in from the very
beginning. The individual stories really
tug at your heart strings, and yet beyond the heartbreak and tragedy, there is
always hope for a better future.

Overall, this is a really lovely
story, which will appeal to anyone who enjoys post-war social history. I really
enjoyed it, and have no hesitation in recommending it to my blog readers.

My thanks to Jean Fullerton and The Orion Publishing Group for my copy of this book.

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